I hope Sanders gets elected, or at least listened to. He seems to be intelligent, honest and truly interested in improving society.
Anyone can seem to be intelligent, honest, and truly interested in improving society. The real question is will they improve society?
When someone has been in politics as long as some of the candidates (ie Bernie or Hillary) the question shouldn't be "will" they, it's "have" they. Past behaviour being the best predictor of future behaviour and all.
There is a difference between the gravity an independent senator from Vermont can pull from a newly elected President that wins the popular vote (not hard for dems in a presidential election) and the electoral college. The later has much more political pull because there are more people that have shown they support his ideas. That is no reason not to support him and his ideas if you believe in them.
Soooo any new polls this week? Oh just Sanders leading in Iowa now as well as in New Hampshire, and another showing Hillary's lead nationally cut to just +4 points. An NBC poll this week also suggests that Sanders is now outperforming Clinton in general election match-ups against the GOP. That Democratic debate this Sunday night is looking like it could be an interesting one after all.
edit: Also while it's definitely not an "endorsement", it's noteworthy that Joe Biden came out and said a few things that were supportive of Sanders and pretty tepid towards Hillary.
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- They guesstimate his current chances of winning at around 15%. For comparison, they've been pegging Trump's chances of winning the Republican nomination at about 5%.
- Clinton has the backing of the establishment and minority voters. It will be very tough for Sanders to win unless he can pickup a greater share of minorities voters.
- He has the money, grassroots supports, and ground game to be competitive in a long race. If he wins Iowa (currently neck and neck) and New Hampshire (currently he's winning), then who knows.
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- They guesstimate his current chances of winning at around 15%. For comparison, they've been pegging Trump's chances of winning the Republican nomination at about 5%.
15% may not be good, but with it being much better than 5% for Trump, I can't really complain .
As for Hillary, she is just a disgusting person. She deflects questions, has a "Holier than Thou" attitude, and plays the pity card saying, "I came from hard times too." The problem is that she is not now, nor has she been for many decades, "In the hard times."
How is this different than any politician?
I believe fully that she wouldn't stay leftist or centrist.
I'm not sure this is at all supported by anything, unless you are going for that European thing of "well, all American politicians are actually so far right..."
Remarks from her camp lately have all pegged her as "more aggressive than Obama on the middle east." Is that really what we need? To be more of the world police? When are the areas that surround it going to stand up? If we vote for her, guaranteed, we see war before the middle of her first term.
I have some bad news for you: War in the middle east is so inevitable that it is already occurring.
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- They guesstimate his current chances of winning at around 15%. For comparison, they've been pegging Trump's chances of winning the Republican nomination at about 5%.
15% may not be good, but with it being much better than 5% for Trump, I can't really complain .
I hate disagreeing with Nate, but well, get used to "Nominee Trump"
As for Hillary, she is just a disgusting person. She deflects questions, has a "Holier than Thou" attitude, and plays the pity card saying, "I came from hard times too." The problem is that she is not now, nor has she been for many decades, "In the hard times."
How is this different than any politician?
Sanders doesn't claim to have 'come from hard times' (unless I am severely mistaken).
As for Hillary, she is just a disgusting person. She deflects questions, has a "Holier than Thou" attitude, and plays the pity card saying, "I came from hard times too." The problem is that she is not now, nor has she been for many decades, "In the hard times."
How is this different than any politician?
Sanders doesn't claim to have 'come from hard times' (unless I am severely mistaken).
Child of poor immigrants whose family all died in the holocaust? Went to public schools and slummed it on a kibbutz? I'm sure he's played this up before when trying to tick the "connects with poor working family" box on the presidential candidate checklist.
As for Hillary, she is just a disgusting person. She deflects questions, has a "Holier than Thou" attitude, and plays the pity card saying, "I came from hard times too." The problem is that she is not now, nor has she been for many decades, "In the hard times."
How is this different than any politician?
Sanders doesn't claim to have 'come from hard times' (unless I am severely mistaken).
Child of poor immigrants whose family all died in the holocaust? Went to public schools and slummed it on a kibbutz? I'm sure he's played this up before when trying to tick the "connects with poor working family" box on the presidential candidate checklist.
Well, if it's a thing, it's a thing.
His background isn't all that hard, his family was more so than his own life, considering he got plenty good education without waiting all that long. And I've never seen him try to use his history to give him credibility, but what I do see is him pushing the 'common sense morality' sort of line about socioeconomic inequality. That's his platform.
Though, I haven't seen much from Sanders, so I could be somewhat mistaken, given he only recently became an item of interest for me because small-scale American politics isn't normally worthy of interest to me (for obvious reasons).
Is anybody else confused by Bernie Sanders essentially labeling himself anti-establishment? He is a socialist so if anything he would bring more establishment. More taxes, government programs, more control essentially.
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Is anybody else confused by Bernie Sanders essentially labeling himself anti-establishment? He is a socialist so if anything he would bring more establishment. More taxes, government programs, more control essentially.
And the bolded bit is the part that firmly labels him as anti-establishment, at least to an Americain vision. In this cast 'The Establishment' is just another synomyn for status quo, which in America is very firmly small government, low tax. Something Bernie is doing his damndest trying to shake up.
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Is anybody else confused by Bernie Sanders essentially labeling himself anti-establishment? He is a socialist so if anything he would bring more establishment. More taxes, government programs, more control essentially.
"Establishment" doesn't mean government. It means the dominant group or elite that holds power. It is saying that there is a relatively small group of wealthy people who have a lot of influence in politics, financial systems, media, etc. and use those systems to keep themselves in power and rig the system against everyone else.
Actually to be honest, back in 2010 I was often talking about Obama as being called "socialist" wasn't the issue, because he's probably right of center and more of a Moderate Republican than a Left of Center Democrat but that's more of a different way to look at things. The main thing right now is that we have Trump as the populist and Sanders as the socialist. We have now entertained into the best world of politics, where the two aspects of government philosophy have come back from the dead.
Oh wait, some forms of populism such as a lack of wage increase for 30 years in the US for males is what? Oh that's right right sizing and destroying the economic foundation of a family is supposed to be pro-family and that we need more hard work as a part of our party platform? Oh and we conservatives complain about the SOCIALIST OBAMA, and now we have a real living, breathing socialist on the left now. Hilarious, and socialism in the States was always more popular with people than Anarchism and specific strains of Libertarianism.
And, both support a higher tariff. Hilarious. The least liberal of those is Cruz and... Clinton.
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Is anybody else confused by Bernie Sanders essentially labeling himself anti-establishment? He is a socialist so if anything he would bring more establishment. More taxes, government programs, more control essentially.
The trick is not to let the politicians words confuse you. Whatever they say it's normally the opposite. The 'establishment' and the government are so far in bed with one another its hard to break them apart, it's a mix of fascism with some socialism sprinkled on the top to make it look nice.
Bernie will not be able to 'fix' the system, he will make it worse. If he taxes the rich, they will leave America (just like Apple). There will be less jobs for all the students coming out of College with all their free degrees. Minimum wage helps the rich too, as they automate (like Mc Donald's) then less people have jobs, the less the rich needs to pay! Minimum wage also makes it harder for the little person to start a business and compete with the established monopolies.
Communism/Socialism is a 2 class system. One for the ruling elite, and one for the equally poor peasants. (fk equality)
The only way forward is deregulation not more degrees!
"Hopeful/Socialist" Had a giggle at the title, sounds religious.... Hope for Socialism like we hope for God!
How does the IA result favor or hurt Bernie? I personally put it at a slight advantage, but not what he would have liked going forward into rougher territory after NH
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How does the IA result favor or hurt Bernie? I personally put it at a slight advantage, but not what he would have liked going forward into rougher territory after NH
I would agree, it's a positive, but a small one. I think obviously it would have been a much bigger story had he won. Tying is not as good, but it's still a small victory. He's proved that he's legitimate and can compete, and that the most favored non-incumbent in modern history is not unbeatable. He's also going to win the next state which should give him a bit of a boost since he'll be "leading" for about 10 days. He's still a significant underdog.
How does the IA result favor or hurt Bernie? I personally put it at a slight advantage, but not what he would have liked going forward into rougher territory after NH
I feel he's basically Ron Paul with some better ideas on specific policies that have been tried out in different countries. Namely he's pushing the anti-tax rhetoric and pushing it the other way to actually make it okay to raise taxes again in American and reigning in larger corporations. I like his message, and if it pushes Clinton farther leftwards a bit more economically than just accepting Goldman Sachs as good for America. I call that a good day, because honestly I feel this is Hilary's time. I would consider Rubio, but there's no way I'm voting for Trump or Cruz.
Cruz is "I hate government because my Dad came from Cuba that was communist and horrible things happened here so I'm coming to America to save it from socialism before communism comes." How about we start moving away from this stuff, and actually start looking at American problems in America without having to worry about fears of the federal government that date back to Civil War and anything from the Cold War. It's like some of these people don't realize that no one takes communism seriously, and that some innovations in governments are worth while to discuss for the US.
Is anybody else confused by Bernie Sanders essentially labeling himself anti-establishment? He is a socialist so if anything he would bring more establishment. More taxes, government programs, more control essentially.
The trick is not to let the politicians words confuse you. Whatever they say it's normally the opposite. The 'establishment' and the government are so far in bed with one another its hard to break them apart, it's a mix of fascism with some socialism sprinkled on the top to make it look nice.
Bernie will not be able to 'fix' the system, he will make it worse. If he taxes the rich, they will leave America (just like Apple). There will be less jobs for all the students coming out of College with all their free degrees. Minimum wage helps the rich too, as they automate (like Mc Donald's) then less people have jobs, the less the rich needs to pay! Minimum wage also makes it harder for the little person to start a business and compete with the established monopolies.
Communism/Socialism is a 2 class system. One for the ruling elite, and one for the equally poor peasants. (fk equality)
The only way forward is deregulation not more degrees!
"Hopeful/Socialist" Had a giggle at the title, sounds religious.... Hope for Socialism like we hope for God!
Anarchism has low standards of living and high amount of violence, therefore at the current most versions of anarchism are predicated on slivers of historical examples that I can wash away rather easily. With that said, since there is no functional version of anarchism on the level of empire we can surmise the opposite extreme of communism does not work as well. And we have seen that move. North Korea just sucks, Cuba sucks, and China and most other communist nations embrace markets.
With that said, the movement on socialism is that there are some innovations in government that have not been achieved through capitalism. Only ALONGSIDE capitalism have many innovations been able to be accomplished such as universal healthcare. These innovations have decreased health risks, stopped pandemics, and increased child mortality. Roebuck did more for improving capitalism than Mises ever did, because Roebuck took a humanist approach to economics and built our civilization back through his great wealth while advocating for good governmental policies. He did not try to destroy America, rather to enrich himself and the people without defeating them.
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- They guesstimate his current chances of winning at around 15%. For comparison, they've been pegging Trump's chances of winning the Republican nomination at about 5%.
15% may not be good, but with it being much better than 5% for Trump, I can't really complain .
I hate disagreeing with Nate, but well, get used to "Nominee Trump"
The GOP won't nominate Trump (or Cruz for that matter). Neither have any hope whatsoever in the general election because they are too extreme to pull in moderate voters. Yeah, they will secure the 15% of voters that are extreme right-wing, but any GOP candidate will get them. Kasich, Bush, or Rubio will be the nominee.
As for Sanders, he'll pull in the entire younger voting demographic, and at least he admits the US voting system is entirely broken. But the word "socialist" scares older voters, who make up the largest voting base. That leaves Clinton, creating an ugly mess.
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You don't call "dying to removal" if the removal is more expensive in resources than the creature. If you have to spend BG (Abrupt Decay), or W + basic land (PtE) to remove a 1G, that is not "dying to removal". Strictly speaking Goyf dies to removal, but actually your removal is dying to Goyf.
I know it's a trendy internet thing to think of feminists as one hive-minded mass, but they're not. Clinton was the support of militant third-wave feminists, but not all of them. I think of myself as feminist, and I'd rather have Sanders. I'd most like to have a system that goes by the wishes of the people, not by the wishes of corporate lobbyists, but that's isn't going to happen.
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You don't call "dying to removal" if the removal is more expensive in resources than the creature. If you have to spend BG (Abrupt Decay), or W + basic land (PtE) to remove a 1G, that is not "dying to removal". Strictly speaking Goyf dies to removal, but actually your removal is dying to Goyf.
The GOP won't nominate Trump (or Cruz for that matter). Neither have any hope whatsoever in the general election because they are too extreme to pull in moderate voters. Yeah, they will secure the 15% of voters that are extreme right-wing, but any GOP candidate will get them. Kasich, Bush, or Rubio will be the nominee.
They might not have any choice in the matter. The nomination process is, after all, democratic in theory, and Cruz or Trump may simply show up at the Convention with too many delegates to deny.
And Trump is many things, but he's not "extreme right-wing". His economic populism crosses traditional party lines, and has a lot of appeal to the blue-collar left as well as the right. (If you think only Republicans hate on Hispanic immigrants, you haven't talked to enough middle-aged white union men.) So if he ends up running against Sanders in the general, there could be a very strange fight for that demographic. Now, you're not wrong that Trump has a hard ceiling on who will vote for him -- I believe he's got the highest "unfavorable" marks of any presidential candidate in history. It's just that he doesn't have the same ceiling as a standard-issue right-wing loon like Cruz.
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The GOP won't nominate Trump (or Cruz for that matter). Neither have any hope whatsoever in the general election because they are too extreme to pull in moderate voters. Yeah, they will secure the 15% of voters that are extreme right-wing, but any GOP candidate will get them. Kasich, Bush, or Rubio will be the nominee.
They might not have any choice in the matter. The nomination process is, after all, democratic in theory, and Cruz or Trump may simply show up at the Convention with too many delegates to deny.
And Trump is many things, but he's not "extreme right-wing". His economic populism crosses traditional party lines, and has a lot of appeal to the blue-collar left as well as the right. (If you think only Republicans hate on Hispanic immigrants, you haven't talked to enough middle-aged white union men.) So if he ends up running against Sanders in the general, there could be a very strange fight for that demographic. Now, you're not wrong that Trump has a hard ceiling on who will vote for him -- I believe he's got the highest "unfavorable" marks of any presidential candidate in history. It's just that he doesn't have the same ceiling as a standard-issue right-wing loon like Cruz.
He has the exact same tax plan the GOP has been trotting out since 1984. Cut taxes on the extremely wealthy and corporations because they will use that to "trickle down" and create jobs. Create money by removing social rescue programs (SSI, SSDI, Welfare, Food Stamps etc) and cutting public education in favor of private school vouchers. The plan has worked perfectly well in Kansas under Sam Brownback.
Oh wait... no. Kansas has the 48th ranked economy in the US, and the worst job growth, and the 3rd largest deficit under Brownback.
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You don't call "dying to removal" if the removal is more expensive in resources than the creature. If you have to spend BG (Abrupt Decay), or W + basic land (PtE) to remove a 1G, that is not "dying to removal". Strictly speaking Goyf dies to removal, but actually your removal is dying to Goyf.
tax plan the GOP has been trotting out since 1984. Cut taxes on the extremely wealthy and corporations because they will use that to "trickle down" and create jobs.
I just want to clarify on some misunderstandings here. There were a couple of tax reforms that Reagan enacted in the 80s. The first was an accross the board effective tax cut of about 23%. The second was a further reduction in the marginal rates, with further consolidation of brackets and the removal of a large amount of deductions. Indeed, the highest rates got a very significant change in the process, going from 70% to 28%. But this was not the only change. A huge part of the reform was fixing issues with bracket creep which put many people into difficult situations when they jumped rates even slightly. This was an enormous boon for the middle class.
Also, "Trickle Down" was not a term that was used or argued for by the GOP at the time. This is an oft referred to misrepresentation that originates from Democrats who were opposing Reagan's proposed cuts. The fact is that the cuts played a significant role in invigorating the economy, increasing actual government revenue, and pulling us out of the recession of the 70s. As is commonly the case in politics, perception is confused for reality, and people continue to use this political terminology from arguments that were thoroughly disproven at the time.
There is a difference between the gravity an independent senator from Vermont can pull from a newly elected President that wins the popular vote (not hard for dems in a presidential election) and the electoral college. The later has much more political pull because there are more people that have shown they support his ideas. That is no reason not to support him and his ideas if you believe in them.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_democratic_presidential_nomination-3824.html
edit: Also while it's definitely not an "endorsement", it's noteworthy that Joe Biden came out and said a few things that were supportive of Sanders and pretty tepid towards Hillary.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/11/politics/joe-biden-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-income-inequality/index.html
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- They guesstimate his current chances of winning at around 15%. For comparison, they've been pegging Trump's chances of winning the Republican nomination at about 5%.
- Clinton has the backing of the establishment and minority voters. It will be very tough for Sanders to win unless he can pickup a greater share of minorities voters.
- He has the money, grassroots supports, and ground game to be competitive in a long race. If he wins Iowa (currently neck and neck) and New Hampshire (currently he's winning), then who knows.
15% may not be good, but with it being much better than 5% for Trump, I can't really complain .
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I'm not sure this is at all supported by anything, unless you are going for that European thing of "well, all American politicians are actually so far right..." I have some bad news for you: War in the middle east is so inevitable that it is already occurring.
Sanders doesn't claim to have 'come from hard times' (unless I am severely mistaken).
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Well, if it's a thing, it's a thing.
His background isn't all that hard, his family was more so than his own life, considering he got plenty good education without waiting all that long. And I've never seen him try to use his history to give him credibility, but what I do see is him pushing the 'common sense morality' sort of line about socioeconomic inequality. That's his platform.
Though, I haven't seen much from Sanders, so I could be somewhat mistaken, given he only recently became an item of interest for me because small-scale American politics isn't normally worthy of interest to me (for obvious reasons).
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And the bolded bit is the part that firmly labels him as anti-establishment, at least to an Americain vision. In this cast 'The Establishment' is just another synomyn for status quo, which in America is very firmly small government, low tax. Something Bernie is doing his damndest trying to shake up.
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"Establishment" doesn't mean government. It means the dominant group or elite that holds power. It is saying that there is a relatively small group of wealthy people who have a lot of influence in politics, financial systems, media, etc. and use those systems to keep themselves in power and rig the system against everyone else.
Oh wait, some forms of populism such as a lack of wage increase for 30 years in the US for males is what? Oh that's right right sizing and destroying the economic foundation of a family is supposed to be pro-family and that we need more hard work as a part of our party platform? Oh and we conservatives complain about the SOCIALIST OBAMA, and now we have a real living, breathing socialist on the left now. Hilarious, and socialism in the States was always more popular with people than Anarchism and specific strains of Libertarianism.
And, both support a higher tariff. Hilarious. The least liberal of those is Cruz and... Clinton.
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The trick is not to let the politicians words confuse you. Whatever they say it's normally the opposite. The 'establishment' and the government are so far in bed with one another its hard to break them apart, it's a mix of fascism with some socialism sprinkled on the top to make it look nice.
Bernie will not be able to 'fix' the system, he will make it worse. If he taxes the rich, they will leave America (just like Apple). There will be less jobs for all the students coming out of College with all their free degrees. Minimum wage helps the rich too, as they automate (like Mc Donald's) then less people have jobs, the less the rich needs to pay! Minimum wage also makes it harder for the little person to start a business and compete with the established monopolies.
Communism/Socialism is a 2 class system. One for the ruling elite, and one for the equally poor peasants. (fk equality)
The only way forward is deregulation not more degrees!
"Hopeful/Socialist" Had a giggle at the title, sounds religious.... Hope for Socialism like we hope for God!
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I would agree, it's a positive, but a small one. I think obviously it would have been a much bigger story had he won. Tying is not as good, but it's still a small victory. He's proved that he's legitimate and can compete, and that the most favored non-incumbent in modern history is not unbeatable. He's also going to win the next state which should give him a bit of a boost since he'll be "leading" for about 10 days. He's still a significant underdog.
I feel he's basically Ron Paul with some better ideas on specific policies that have been tried out in different countries. Namely he's pushing the anti-tax rhetoric and pushing it the other way to actually make it okay to raise taxes again in American and reigning in larger corporations. I like his message, and if it pushes Clinton farther leftwards a bit more economically than just accepting Goldman Sachs as good for America. I call that a good day, because honestly I feel this is Hilary's time. I would consider Rubio, but there's no way I'm voting for Trump or Cruz.
Cruz is "I hate government because my Dad came from Cuba that was communist and horrible things happened here so I'm coming to America to save it from socialism before communism comes." How about we start moving away from this stuff, and actually start looking at American problems in America without having to worry about fears of the federal government that date back to Civil War and anything from the Cold War. It's like some of these people don't realize that no one takes communism seriously, and that some innovations in governments are worth while to discuss for the US.
Anarchism has low standards of living and high amount of violence, therefore at the current most versions of anarchism are predicated on slivers of historical examples that I can wash away rather easily. With that said, since there is no functional version of anarchism on the level of empire we can surmise the opposite extreme of communism does not work as well. And we have seen that move. North Korea just sucks, Cuba sucks, and China and most other communist nations embrace markets.
With that said, the movement on socialism is that there are some innovations in government that have not been achieved through capitalism. Only ALONGSIDE capitalism have many innovations been able to be accomplished such as universal healthcare. These innovations have decreased health risks, stopped pandemics, and increased child mortality. Roebuck did more for improving capitalism than Mises ever did, because Roebuck took a humanist approach to economics and built our civilization back through his great wealth while advocating for good governmental policies. He did not try to destroy America, rather to enrich himself and the people without defeating them.
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Does it?
That's a pretty big assumption, and is true about communism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_regimes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
Therefore what the rest you have stated is wrong or/and irreverent.
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The GOP won't nominate Trump (or Cruz for that matter). Neither have any hope whatsoever in the general election because they are too extreme to pull in moderate voters. Yeah, they will secure the 15% of voters that are extreme right-wing, but any GOP candidate will get them. Kasich, Bush, or Rubio will be the nominee.
As for Sanders, he'll pull in the entire younger voting demographic, and at least he admits the US voting system is entirely broken. But the word "socialist" scares older voters, who make up the largest voting base. That leaves Clinton, creating an ugly mess.
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I know it's a trendy internet thing to think of feminists as one hive-minded mass, but they're not. Clinton was the support of militant third-wave feminists, but not all of them. I think of myself as feminist, and I'd rather have Sanders. I'd most like to have a system that goes by the wishes of the people, not by the wishes of corporate lobbyists, but that's isn't going to happen.
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And Trump is many things, but he's not "extreme right-wing". His economic populism crosses traditional party lines, and has a lot of appeal to the blue-collar left as well as the right. (If you think only Republicans hate on Hispanic immigrants, you haven't talked to enough middle-aged white union men.) So if he ends up running against Sanders in the general, there could be a very strange fight for that demographic. Now, you're not wrong that Trump has a hard ceiling on who will vote for him -- I believe he's got the highest "unfavorable" marks of any presidential candidate in history. It's just that he doesn't have the same ceiling as a standard-issue right-wing loon like Cruz.
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He has the exact same tax plan the GOP has been trotting out since 1984. Cut taxes on the extremely wealthy and corporations because they will use that to "trickle down" and create jobs. Create money by removing social rescue programs (SSI, SSDI, Welfare, Food Stamps etc) and cutting public education in favor of private school vouchers. The plan has worked perfectly well in Kansas under Sam Brownback.
Oh wait... no. Kansas has the 48th ranked economy in the US, and the worst job growth, and the 3rd largest deficit under Brownback.
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(And you might want to check your facts again on Trump's social welfare program positions.)
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I just want to clarify on some misunderstandings here. There were a couple of tax reforms that Reagan enacted in the 80s. The first was an accross the board effective tax cut of about 23%. The second was a further reduction in the marginal rates, with further consolidation of brackets and the removal of a large amount of deductions. Indeed, the highest rates got a very significant change in the process, going from 70% to 28%. But this was not the only change. A huge part of the reform was fixing issues with bracket creep which put many people into difficult situations when they jumped rates even slightly. This was an enormous boon for the middle class.
Also, "Trickle Down" was not a term that was used or argued for by the GOP at the time. This is an oft referred to misrepresentation that originates from Democrats who were opposing Reagan's proposed cuts. The fact is that the cuts played a significant role in invigorating the economy, increasing actual government revenue, and pulling us out of the recession of the 70s. As is commonly the case in politics, perception is confused for reality, and people continue to use this political terminology from arguments that were thoroughly disproven at the time.
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